Helpless
['helplɪs] or ['hɛlpləs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) unable to manage independently; 'as helpless as a baby' .
(adj.) unable to function; without help .
(adj.) lacking in or deprived of strength or power; 'lying ill and helpless'; 'helpless with laughter' .
校對:桑福德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.
(a.) Beyond help; irremediable.
(a.) Bringing no help; unaiding.
(a.) Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.
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同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Weak, feeble, powerless, impotent, imbecile, disabled, infirm.[2]. Exposed, defenceless, unprotected.[3]. Irremediable, beyond help.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I was left helpless, with the prospect of a coming incumbrance in the shape of a child. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I was quite helpless, and his ways with ladies were very endearing. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He is now helpless, indeed--blind and a cripple. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- They would extract good from the excess of evil,[440] and presently France would fall back helpless into the hands of her legitimate masters. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I have starved her and the boy too; and now I am weak and helpless, Jem, she'll murder me for it; I know she will. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I feel so much more solitary and helpless without Lizzie now, than I used to feel before I knew her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It does fit the first statement--in a helpless sort of way. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Helpless as a child which has sobbed and sought too long, she fell into a late morning sleep, and when she waked Mr. Casaubon was already up. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But it's curious how much room there seems, a whole universe under there; and as cold as hell, you're as helpless as if your head was cut off. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Joe looked at her in a helpless way, then took a helpless bite, and looked at me again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It was all done so swiftly and deftly that the fellow was helpless before he knew that he was attacked. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Her heart was beating all over her body--in her throat, her limbs, her helpless useless hands. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- There was nobody else, sir, to take the little helpless creature in hand, replied Mrs. Clements. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You mean--I'm so evidently helpless and defenceless? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mrs Wilfer stared, but was helpless. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The idea that she had that helpless and gentle creature to protect, gave additional strength to the natural courage of the honest Irishwoman. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Gudrun could hear the cattle breathing heavily with helpless fear and fascination. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I was faint, and silent, and helpless. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- At last Loerke turned to Gudrun, raising his hands in helpless irony, a shrug of ironical dismissal, something appealing and child-like. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He was, at that time, a very amiable and very helpless middle-aged gentleman, who was going out again directly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But he was inarticulate and helpless against them. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The poor unfortunate lady fell out of one fit into another, and went on so till she was quite wearied out, and as helpless as a new-born babe. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He replied in a hollow voice, Why deceive a helpless old man, why talk hypocritically to one half crazed? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The misery of a weak, helpless, dumb creature is surely one of the saddest of all the mournful sights which this world can show. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- His eyes looked at me again with the painful expression of inquiry, so wistful, so vacant, so miserably helpless to see. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Ahab, the late King, had left a helpless family behind him, and Jehu killed seventy of the orphan sons. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- O endless vocatives that would still leave expression slipping helpless from the measurement of mortal folly! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Call to mind that I am a very helpless and defenceless little thing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
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